Season 8 of “So You Think You Can Dance” continues on Fox tonight (8 p.m., Channels 2 and 40) with more audition rounds. But you have to wonder if they’re still watching in Oakland after the city was so brutally dissed last week.

Plenty of Oakland viewers probably turned on their TV sets expecting to see the community bask in some prime-time love. What they got instead were lots of pretty shots of the Golden Gate Bridge and cable cars and Coit Tower as host Cat Deeley repeatedly referred to the “San Francisco auditions.”

That’s funny, I could have sworn I spent a chilly morning last fall interviewing hordes of nimble-footed hoofers as they lined up outside the Paramount Theatre on Broadway. “… You know, in Oakland?

This is the stuff of which civic inferiority complexes are made.

The word “Oakland,” in fact, wasn’t even uttered until late in the episode when Deeley introduced viewers to a cool brand of dancing called Turfing, which originated in the East Bay city. Then they brought on wiry Oakland teen Levi “I Dummy” Allen to demonstrate the gliding, spinning, contortion-filled dance.

The judges, including Nigel Lythgoe, all claimed to be blown away. They used words like “exciting” and “spectacular” “… but then they balked at sending any of the turfers onto the next round.

Ouch.

Still, the Bay Area produced several contestants to keep an eye on in the coming weeks. Livermore’s Danielle Ihle, 18, Emeryville’s Ashley Rich, 22, and Morgan Hill’s Ryan Ramirez, 18, all performed solidly enough to advance to the Las Vegas round.

Ramirez is back, more confident and determined, after making it into the show’s Top 24 last season. And Rich figures to be a strong contender after judge Tyce DiOrio heaped major props upon her, saying she moved “like a deer flying and jumping through the forest.”

Ihle, meanwhile, brings a somber back story to the show. She and her mom were homeless for a few months after her father lost his job and abandoned the family.

Several other dancers apparently advanced as well, but we didn’t learn their names because the show gave them the cold shoulder in the editing room. Now, they know how Oakland feels.

PLANTE RETURNS: Veteran newsman Hank Plante may have retired to Southern California, but KPIX (CBS 5) wisely continues to rely upon his experience and expertise.

Plante is back on Bay Area TV screens this week for a series of reports marking the 30th anniversary of the AIDS epidemic. Since Monday, his stories have been integrated into Channel 5’s 6 p.m. newscasts. Among the topics covered: the history of AIDS and current medical advances.

If you’ve missed some of the reports, no worries. CBS 5 will repackage all of them into a half-hour special that will air at 7 p.m. Saturday. The program will have an airing encore at the same time on Sunday.

On June 5, 1981, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that a rare pneumonia struck five gay men in Los Angeles. It was the first account of an infection tied to a disease that would come to be known as HIV/AIDS.

NEWS AT 4: It will be intriguing to see, in the coming weeks and months, how ABC 7 (KGO) fares in the 4 p.m. time slot with its newscast anchored by Carolyn Johnson and Larry Beil.

The newscast replaces “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” which ended its 25-year run last week and was a dominant force for ABC 7. Not only did “Oprah” provide robust ratings at 4, it served as a powerful lead-in for ABC 7’s 5 p.m. newscast, which typically pummeled local rivals.

Do Bay Area viewers really crave a newscast at 4? Will ABC 7 take a big-time hit in a post-Oprah world? We’re about to find out.

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